Methods and apparatuses for microcell beacon assisted position determination. In one embodiment, microcell beacons that are based on low cost, mass market electronics for wireless local area data communication (e.g., Bluetooth or WiFi) are used to broadcast to mobile stations location information an ...

Methods and systems of continuously optimizing data in WiFi positioning systems (figure 1 ). For example, data is monitored to infer whether a WiFi access point (figure 1, 102) has moved or is new. In this fashion, data is continuously optimized. Likewise, suspect data may be avoided when determinin ...

A nomadic server and a related system provides seamless roaming for a mobile communication device between different types of wireless networks, such as WiFi and cellular networks for voice, data and video communication. Use of the nomadic server enables a combination of WiFi and cellular networks fo ...

[en] Systems and methods for cellular or WIFI mobile traffic optimization based on public or private network destination are disclosed. One embodiment includes a mobile device whose traffic is optimized based on destination IP network type where the mobile device includes a local proxy which detects ...

Methods and systems for consolidating the workflow of various devices into a wireless, voice-enabled workflow. A method includes establishing a connection between a wireless, voice-enabled device and a data system using an interface and accessing the data system using voice commands via the connecti ...

A system is presented providing content to a plurality of handheld devices (including musical selections). The devices can access a server over the Internet via a WIFI or other similar wireless interconnection and can download songs requested by a user from the server or from other users using, e.g. ...

In a wireless network, two or more devices can determine how close they are from one another in a peer-to-peer way, by exchanging the network characteristics they observe in real time. A method for determining device proximity in a wireless network, includes characterizing at a first device any dete ...

A method of automatically capturing images with precision uses an intelligent mobile device having a camera loaded with an appropriate image capture application. When a user initializes the application, the camera starts taking images of the object. Each image is qualified to determine whether it is ...